James Anderson leaves http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 paralyzed
The Ashes has always managed to bring out the best from the Australian and the English players. Especially the English play their best game when they are put against the Aussies in the Ashes.
You can find no other competitive Test format in the world except the Ashes. If anybody thinks that Test cricket is dead, he needs to think again. The Ashes is certainly keeping the sting in the five-day version of the game alive.
The resurgence of English cricket almost five years ago has helped in making the Ashes more popular and nail biting in recent years.
It is not just the Australians and the English who are glued to their TV sets for this five match series, in fact, cricket maniacs all over the globe are deeply interest in this series.
From http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Bangladesh-c747, the interest in the Ashes is no different. Test cricket is at its best in the Ashes and the teams who like playing Test matches slowly and safely need to take a few pointers from this series.
Now, talking about the ongoing Ashes, this year it is better than ever before. With stakes high for both the sides, it is obvious that no one wants to lose this time. England, for the first time in twenty years are in a position
to beat Australia on their soil, while Australia need to redeem their lost glory in the world of cricket after suffering defeats this year. On a personal note, Ricky Ponting would not want to go down in history as the first Australian captain to lose three
Ashes series while leading the national squad since 1890.
With so much at stake, it is a delight to see every single player performing to his fullest abilities. James Anderson, the English pacer has been very impressive over the years, but he looks to be the catalyst behind the English
powerhouse in this series. Anderson, who had fractured his rib just a few months before Ashes, was in doubt to make it to the squad, but luckily, for him, the injury was not serious enough to keep him out of the tour.
It seems like each player wants to be a part of this Test clash and in order to get a place in the final eleven the players have to give a larger than life performance. Anderson perhaps has given such commendable performance on
the first day of the second Test. The Aussies were given an early wakeup call on the fourth ball of the match, which resulted in a run out of Simon Katich, who had not even faced a single delivery.
Anderson then removed the Aussie skipper on a duck and gave Michael http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Clarke-c51120 one h**l of a time before sending him back after the struggling Aussie scored just two runs. Australia were three wickets down after scoring two runs. This
was without a doubt a desperate time for the Aussies.
England had their tails up at this point and Anderson was swinging the ball both ways making life difficult for the batting side. Anderson and Graeme Swann bowled beautifully and erased the bad memories they had the last time they
were at Adelaide.
James Anderson took four wickets that included the wicket of Shane http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Watson-c96326 who was on 51 and looking strong. The English bowlers finished off the Australians on 245 at the end of the first day. Now, the second day is there for the
English batsmen to bat and take full advantage of the situation that was created by their bowlers.
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